Goodreads asked Karen Ulm Rettig:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Karen Ulm Rettig This doesn’t apply to anyone who works on deadline, but my advice to creative writers is to take your time. First, set aside work-in-progress for a few days before calling it finished; you may like it less (or more) when you re-read it. Second, get good criticism: from a writers’ group, from a professional editor, from your cousin the English major. Get critique from as many qualified people as possible before you publish.

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